I’ve spent a not insignificant amount of time over the past couple of days trying to figure out if the opening hours tag I did for a McDonald’s is correct or not. 🕒

Based on the rules in the wiki it should be. Based on tools I found online it should be. But when I look at it in OSMAnd it reports the fallback rule, not the primary rule, despite the primary rule applying…

It would be easier to know if I made a mistake, and what mistake I might have made, if I could find real world examples of more complicated opening hours tags. I’ve never seen anything tagged more complicated than different opening and closings each day of the week!

If I can’t even get something as simple as “These rules, but if these rules don’t apply then check the next rules” right it’s going to make things complicated. I could tweak the times, but it shouldn’t be necessary.

Very frustrating. It’ll be more frustrating (but also a bit vindicating) if the problem is with the OSMAnd app lol since I’ve spent so much time researching.

Maybe the simplest research would be into what my password is for the Washington State Slack. I’m sure there’s someone out there with a knack for this.

(for anyone interested, the tag is as follows, and should evaluate to show that it is drive thru only only when the previois rules don’t apply:)

Mo-Th 05:30-23:00 open "Lobby and Drive Thru"; Fr-Sa 06:00-24:00 open "Lobby and Drive Thru"; Su 06:00-23:15 open "Lobby and Drive Thru" || 00:00-24:00 open "Drive Thru Only"

Feel free to throw me a life preserver if you have answers and time.

It’s Spring Break!

I started off my Spring Break by taking a nice weekend trip with my girlfriend. Shoreline is a nice city, it was quiet even though I’m pretty sure we were in the middle of town. I got in some good long walks, and did a little mapping with StreetComplete.

I don’t typically take panoramas, but I found a good use for them: capturing an entire stripmall in one go. Eventually I’ll be using those panoramas, but my Spring Break is flying by. Amazing how a break doesn’t really feel like a break when you still have to work.

I want to do more sidewalk / crosswalk surveying, but most of the sidewalks are still 2 feet deep in snow. OSM is giving me ample excuses to get out of the house and go for walks, but the weather is just not going to have it.

Lucky for me, it’s been sunny the past few days. Maybe it’ll clear up in time for Spring Break.

There’s so much mapping to do in this town…